In her poem “The Book,” Mary Oliver writes, of lilies in a neighbor’s yard: You could not help but see that to be beautiful is also to be simple and brief; is to rise up and be glorious, and then vanish. I thought of these lines while reading Michael Cunningham’s new book, By Nightfall, a… read more

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Our sponsors

This organization is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

The Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices is made possible, in part, by a generous contribution by the Amazon Literary Partnership

This website is supported, in part, by a grant from The David Bohnett Foundation

Lambda Literary is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Lambda Literary is supported in part by an grant from the California Arts Council

This program is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs.

This program is presented with the support of the City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Arts program.